Gilder&#39;s tool.



PATENTED MAR. 8, 1904 W. H. COB. GILDERS TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27.. 1901.

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'UNITED STATES Patented March 8, 1904.

PATENT ,OFFIC GILDERS TOOL;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,403, dated March 8,1904.

Application filed June 27, 1901- Serial N0. 66,305- (NO model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER H. Con, a citizen of the United States,residing at Providence, in the coljnty of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gilders Tools, ofwhich the following is a specification.

In depositing gold, silver, or other metallic leaf upon uneven surfacesit is necessary to press the leaf into the hollows which occur betweenthe raised portions'of the surface; and my invention relates to animproved pressure-pad for depositing metallic leaf from the unrolledpaper strip of. a package-roll upon the surface to be decorated; and itconsists in the improved construction and" arrangement of parts ashereinafter set forth.

In the-accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of theimproved gilding-tool. Fig. 2 represents an end view. Fig.

' 3 represents a section taken in the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A represents a pressurepad, which may be made ofsponge-rubber or any sultable yielding elastic material. B represents abacking-support for the pad, and C a handle, by means of which thegilding-tool is operated. At one end of the backing-support B isarranged the holding-shaft D for the package-roll E, the said shaftbeing removably held in the perforations of the ears a a by means of thehead 6 at one end of the shaft and a. groove 0 at the opposite end-,-engaged by a hook F, which servesto prevent the endwise Withdrawal ofthe shaft. The opposite end of the backing-support B is provided withthe transverse guide-wire Gr, which serves to guide the end of the paperstrip away from the surface which has been decorated and to hold thesaid end in an elevated position from which it may be seized by thethumb and finger for drawing a fresh quantity of the metallic film fromthe package-roll E.

In using the improved gilding-tool for depositing metallic films uponuneven surfaces the paper strip H must first be fed from thepackage-roll E around the end a of the back ing-support B, thence underthe pressure-pad A and upward over the guide-wire G, by

1 means of which the paper strip H. after the {metallic film I has beendeposited therefrom,

will be held in an elevated position, and when a'sufiicient length ofthe metallic film has been brought forward from the packageroll bypulling upon the, end or? of the paper'strip the metallic film and paperstrip are to be pressed upon the prepared surface which is'tebe-decorated, thus causing the said film and strip to be pressed intothe recesses of the said surface by the yielding nature of the pad, andthen upon raising the pad the paper strip freed from the deposited filmis to be brought forward over the guide G, and 'thus held away from thesurface upon which the film is to be deposited, and by means of theguide G the paper strip will be so held that the strip and its attachedfilm will not be liable to slip laterally from the pad when thegilding-tool is in use. I

I claim as my invention- In a gilding-tool, the combination of theyielding pressure-pad and its backing-sup port, with means for holding aspirally-wound package-roll of metallicleaf, the guide for holding thepaper strip when freed from the metallic leaf, and a handle locatedbetween the package-r611 and the guide for the freed paper strip,substantially as described.

. WALTER H. OOE.

Witnesses:

SOGRATES ScHoLFIELD, CHAS. E. Smzrn.

